“I was trafficked to Prince Andrew”: Jeffrey Epstein’s victim comes out with explosive claims
The extent of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex-trafficking ring has been exposed in a 60 Minutes investigation, after intense allegations came out against some of the world’s most rich and powerful people – extending all the way to the British Royal family.
In the exclusive episode, those who managed to escape Epstein’s dark and insidious world exposed the entire plot that they fell victim to – and named the elite abusers they want brought to justice.
At just 17-years-old, Virginia Roberts Giuffre was lured into Epstein’s sex trafficking ring and came face-to-face with her abuser: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
Prince Andrew has denied all allegations and said he had no knowledge of Epstein’s activities and was not involved in his sex ring.
But Virginia stands by her claims and says that she has undeniable evidence to prove that the sexual encounter occurred – a disturbing photo taken only moments before she was first trafficked to Andrew.
The photograph in question was taken in 2001 and shows the Prince with his arms around the then 17-year-old Virginia in London. But despite Virginia insisting the photo is real, Prince Andrew has claimed that it’s fake.
“That is Andrew, this is a real photo,” Virginia told 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown.
“[The] photo has been verified as an original and it’s been given to the FBI, and they’ve never contested that it’s a fake. I know it’s real.”
According to Virginia, she was trafficked to Prince Andrew three times – first at a party in London, again in Jeffrey’s New York mansion and finally on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, where she spoke about the eight other women who were stuck in the same situation as her.
“There were a lot of younger girls with us,” she told Brown.
“You’re not even acknowledged as being alive or there, or important or cared for, or worried about in any way. None of those human emotions were attached to me when I was trafficked to Prince Andrew.”
Epstein would lure young, impressionable women with the promise of a better life, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
In a perverted pyramid scheme, where he and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell would recruit girls as young as 12 and abuse them, the victims would be forced to have sex with Epstein’s wealthy associates.
“I was trafficked to other billionaires, I was trafficked to politicians, professors even royalty,” she told 60 Minutes.
“It was the elite of the world. It was the people who run the world. It was the most powerful people in the world.”
Now she’s working alongside lawyer David Boeis to hold Prince Andrew and the other alleged perpetrators accountable for their actions.